Position Purpose

The goal GTA analysts is to transform supply and demand knowledge into unique, timely, actionable & accurate insights to the traders, commercial and business development teams locally and globally to guide/support their decision making. 
This analyst trainee position is at entry level, designed to gain knowledge, experience, and develop proper behaviors that meet our needs of a specific product analyst. This position will need to collaborate with other analysts and GTA China lead to complete various projects in short and long term fundamental studies; build/maintain GTA database and help to manage the way we create, collect, store, report and utilize data; and help in other routine works. Customer and farm field visits are also needed. 
This position has constant interactions with local traders/merchants, commercial team, and global traders and analysts. 

Principal Accountabilities 
Key deliverables are certain study projects, summarized into reports and presented to relevant teams; and data/database projects that have the results of improved efficiency in our data process. 

(1) 40% S&D Analysis Projects 
• Work on fundamental study projects to understand specific S&D and order flow components and build short/long term forecasts. 
• Learn from other analysts, commercial team, traders, customers, and other Cargill businesses for related business knowledge. 
• Collect, verify, and consolidate data, and build statistical models to transform those knowledge into clear and concise insights (in the form of numbers, tables, and charts). 
• Summarize reports and present study results to traders and other analysts. 

(2) 40% Data and Database Management 
• Partner with other analysts and traders to understand how data is currently used, understand what data is relevant to their needs, and determine if data can be located that would improve their analytics, enhance their productivity, etc. 
• Data collection, with the goal of automating the collection process systematically; there is still manual data input needed. 
• Work with IT and global data analyst to make sure all data is stored properly locally or in global database, and easily accessed by who need it. 

(3) 20% Support in Other Studies 
• Support in other (routine) works of GTA China. 
• Crop tours participation. 
• Participate in CASC Enterprise and individual Business studies as needed. 
• Support other GTA analysts and GTA group projects.